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Funding Renewed For CORE Training Program

Funding Renewed For CORE Training Program MILFORD – State Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, this morning announced $273,000 in state grants, including $38,000 to support Milford Central School’s Career Opportunities in Rural Education (CORE) Initiative. “Our schools are faced with growing financial demands while, at the same time, student needs are also on the rise,” said Seward. “Districts are often searching for new and innovative ways to help students prepare for the future, and I am pleased to help support these…

Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future

Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future COOPERSTOWN – The public is invited to a “Design Charrette” 6-8 p.m. this evening in the Cooperstown Middle/High School cafeteria, guided by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs. The goal of the structured discussion under the guidance of Elan principal Lisa Nagle will be to develop a number of consensus goals for Cooperstown’s future. Nagle and her team will report back on the outcomes of tonight’s meeting at another meeting, 6-8…

Mayor To Discuss Housing At League’s Annual Dinner

Mayor To Discuss Housing At League’s Annual Dinner ONEONTA – Mayor Dick Miller will discuss the city’s housing initiatives at 5:45 p.m. Tuesday at the League of Women Voters’ annual membership meeting at Elm Park United Methodist Church. The league’s dish-to-pass supper will follow.…

Hartwick College Sculptor Rocknack’s Poe Sculpture Featured In NY Times

Hartwick College Sculptor Rocknack’s Poe Sculpture Featured In NY Times ONEONTA – Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe statue, unveiled today, is a work of Stefanie Rocknack, the Hartwick College professor and sculptor. The “body model” is John Dudek, another Hartwick professor (who is also a member of the City Charter Commission and spouse of the rowing Olympian Andrea Thies.) The unveiling was the topic of a feature story on the front page of today’s Sunday New York Times, tracing the uneven…

IN MEMORIAM: Tina M. Tisenchek, 89; Worked At Bresee’s

IN MEMORIAM:  Tina M. Tisenchek, 89; Worked At Bresee’s ONEONTA – Tina M. Tisenchek, 89, who worked at the former Bresee’s Department Store, among other local businesses, passed away on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, at Chestnut Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center.…

Hall’s Prominence-To-Be Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt

Hall’s Prominence Surprised Stephen Clark, Homer Osterhoudt By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Few people realized the Baseball Hall of Fame’s potential when it was officially opened on June 12, 1939, 75 years ago this year. Not Homer Osterhoudt, then a young man in his 20s standing in the lower left of photos taken that day of the throng in front of 25 Main.  (Osterhoudt, now in his mid-90s, has attended every induction except three since then.) At the…